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Vancouver, 1885-early 1890s

Black and white photo of a young coastal city with the ocean and mountains in the background. Early one and two storey buildings, a large empty lot and roads are in the foreground.

Credit: Library and Archives Canada/Ernest Brown collection #cOO8199

“We heard much … of its (Vancouver) wonderful growth since the disastrous fire which utterly annihilated it five years ago. Within three months after the fire four hundred houses had been erected, and the progress has since been so rapid that there is now a population of 13,000.”

Excerpt from Through Canada With a Kodak, p.142-143